Record Number: 8031
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read "Pride and Prejudice" I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.'
Century:1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:30 Nov 1835
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Author
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:America
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
Also known as Mark Twain
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Pride and Prejudice
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:8031
Source:Mark Twain
Editor:Albert Bigelow Paine
Title:Mark Twain's Letters
Place of Publication:New York & London
Date of Publication:1917
Vol:2
Page:667
Additional Comments:
Letter of 13 September 1898. B.C. Southam (in "Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage", II, 232) notes that the third sentence was added in 'Mark Twain and the Art of Writing', Brander Matthews, "Harper's Magazine", October 1920.
Citation:
Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (ed.), Mark Twain's Letters, (New York & London, 1917), 2, p. 667, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8031, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
None